[squareman]

Anyone know why IE5 would show really piss-poor rendering on non-websafe colors? It tends to posterize them and not dither them (like NS does). I've tried quitting the browser and restarting AFTER downsampling to 256 colors to eliminate any caching issues, but that didn't work either. BTW, it seems to be an issue mainly with GIF images and not JPGs as much.

This makes it difficult to do QA on web graphics in that I have to go to a PC to test what it looks like at 256 colors (since I figure anyone running IE5 on a Mac is running at thousands or better colors). Any suggestions to make testing easier?

[This message has been edited by squareman (edited 09-11-2000).]

[stetsows]

Quitting may not be enough to clear your cache. Usually you have to clear the cache through the preferences to assure that you are not receiveing old info.

As for the general appearance, I have always thought that 256 is a lousy res to use. All my machines for the past 6 years have supported at least thousands. Odds are 256 isn't a high priority for MS.